Wine with Leslie: Local off-licences increasingly looking at terroir in wine choices

"Terroir could be defined as ‘a sense of place’ and can include the soil, the microclimate, the grape varieties, the pruning method, the vigneron and the wild yeasts."

Fri, 19 Jul, 2024 - 02:00

Leslie Williams

Terroir - the wine geek’s favourite word. It helps that it doesn’t have a direct English translation and we can use our best French accents, long honed by learning obscure wine regions such as Irouléguy (Pyrenees), Auxey-Duresses (Burgundy) and Quincy (Loire).

Terroir could be defined as ‘a sense of place’ and can include the soil, the microclimate, the grape varieties, the pruning method, the vigneron and the wild yeasts.